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Ga. Suspect's Child Born Days Earlier (Nichols/Atlanta)
Yahoo.com ^ | 3/16/05 | HARRY R. WEBER and BILL POOVEY

Posted on 03/16/2005 1:00:41 PM PST by beyond the sea

ATLANTA - A girlfriend of courthouse killings suspect Brian Nichols gave birth to his child just three days before the rampage, and she said Nichols repeatedly told her that he wanted to be with the child.

The mother's statements and transcripts from Nichols' rape trial are the most specific suggestion of a possible motive for last week's shooting spree. Prosecutors have suggested Nichols was worried about being convicted at the trial, but have not revealed a detailed motive.

"I do know that he wanted to be with the baby. He did speak about it all the time," Sonya Meredith, the mother of the baby boy, told The Associated Press. She said Nichols made those statements in the days and weeks leading up to the shootings.

Nichols was on trial for a second time for allegedly raping and holding hostage an ex-girlfriend when he allegedly escaped and killed four people Friday.

It was in the middle of that retrial, on March 8, when Meredith, another girlfriend of Nichols, gave birth to their son.

"I wanted to have a healthy baby," Nichols testified during his first rape trial.

Nichols' first rape trial ended in a hung jury on Feb. 28, and the second one started last week.

The day after Meredith gave birth, jail officials found homemade knives in each of Nichols' shoes. The next day, Nichols allegedly went on the rampage.


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KEYWORDS: atlanta; baby; briannichols; child; nichols
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To: beyond the sea

I'm thinking this guy's on-track for an insanity defense....


41 posted on 03/16/2005 1:32:20 PM PST by r9etb
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To: madprof98
She said she wanted her dad to know that she loved him very much. Also, she was curious where he had been for the past 13 years. (I kid you not.)

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Amazing...........

42 posted on 03/16/2005 1:32:41 PM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: johnb838; EllaMinnow
a post-coital refusal manuever

Yoi, three days of beer and food and a "post-coital refusal manuever". That's incredible.

43 posted on 03/16/2005 1:35:04 PM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: Howlin

Or marry the baby's mother? Or get a job and lead a respectable life as role model to that child? And, oh yes, how 'bout not raping a hostage in the first place?


44 posted on 03/16/2005 1:35:41 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: over3Owithabrain
So much for the "good guy" having a bad moment theory.

I don't know anyone here who believes that. But you had to bring it up.

45 posted on 03/16/2005 1:36:40 PM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: madprof98

Tragic.....


46 posted on 03/16/2005 1:36:48 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: beyond the sea; cyncooper
Nichols' daughter hasn't heard from him in years

By MIKE MORRIS

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 03/15/05

The 13-year-old daughter of accused courthouse killer Brian Nichols said she was "in a state of shock" when she learned Friday that her father was the subject of a manhunt in Atlanta.

Jasmine Jay, who appeared Tuesday with her mother on ABC's "Good Morning America," said her mother came to her school Friday to tell her about her father.

The morning news and entertainment program showed home video of Nichols feeding his infant daughter in December 1992.

"I want to let him know that I still love him, because he is my father," Jasmine said. "And I just want to ask him, why hasn't he been in contact with me all these years. I want to know, do I have any half-brothers and sisters by him."

Jasmine's mother, Stephanie Jay, said she met the "very charming" Nichols in college at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.

"He was very funny; he liked to play jokes on people," she said. "He was very nice to me, the time we were together."

Asked by Diane Sawyer what Nichols most wanted for his life, Stephanie Jay said, "play football, go to college, make something of himself."

She said she and Nichols broke up when Jasmine was 1 year old.

"He came to see her when she was 2, and I remember them playing out in the yard," she said.

Stephanie Jay, of Allentown, Pa., said it was "very hard" for Jasmine to go on national television Tuesday, but said Jasmine "wants to get a message to her dad."

Nichols, 33, is a suspect in four shooting deaths, including a judge and a federal customs agent.

47 posted on 03/16/2005 1:36:55 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: beyond the sea

Funny that in his 7 hours with Ashley Smith he never once mentioned it. Nor did his previous attorney ever mention it.


48 posted on 03/16/2005 1:37:30 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: 3AngelaD
A police officer who lives near me used to play high school basketball with Nichols ( in Pennsylvania I believe) and he was on the news this afternoon, recalling his memories of Nichols as a teenager. He said that Nichols was extremely high-strung and violent, pointing out an incident where Nichols got into a fight after a ball game and knocked out his opponent with one hit, then had to be pulled off the guy.

Yep, sounds like a fine, outstanding citizen to me. Do I even have to put a sarcasm notice here?

49 posted on 03/16/2005 1:39:21 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. - John Adams)
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To: EllaMinnow; johnb838
Maybe the dope, the cooler full of beer and food, and the machine gun, and the duct tape were his idea of a romantic reconciliation

ROFL

I would have included a couple of early 'Three Stooges' shorts to watch to seal the deal.

;-)

50 posted on 03/16/2005 1:39:50 PM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: Eva

Hung jury.


51 posted on 03/16/2005 1:40:26 PM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: OldFriend

his teenage (I think) daughter as on TV last night, saying she wanted to see her daddy.

Folks are just coming out of the woodwork for 10 minutes of fame on this case. It's tawdry TV.


52 posted on 03/16/2005 1:41:08 PM PST by peacebaby (Southern born and bred.)
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To: beyond the sea

Is there any real doubt that it was really rape?


53 posted on 03/16/2005 1:41:51 PM PST by Eva
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To: Peach
Funny that in his 7 hours with Ashley Smith he never once mentioned it.

Yes, not too candid of him, eh?

;-)

54 posted on 03/16/2005 1:42:28 PM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: Eva

YES!


55 posted on 03/16/2005 1:43:52 PM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: beyond the sea

Believe it or not, my husband watched a Three Stooges Marathon on the TV in the labor room while I was in labor...I did forgive him...eventually.


56 posted on 03/16/2005 1:45:24 PM PST by EllaMinnow
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To: beyond the sea
The media attempting to humanize the scum. Oh, he has a family, blah blah blah.

He's an evil evil piece of garbage, with my apologies to garbage.

57 posted on 03/16/2005 1:49:16 PM PST by OldFriend ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child might have peace." Thomas Paine)
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To: Howlin

I dunno bout this. They leavin sumpin' out aint tellin' the whole story. Sumpin' don't smell right.


58 posted on 03/16/2005 1:57:32 PM PST by Kokojmudd (Today's Liberal is Tomorrow's Prospective Flying Saucer Abductee)
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To: EllaMinnow
I did forgive him...eventually.

LOL! That's beautiful!

59 posted on 03/16/2005 1:58:09 PM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: beyond the sea
Hung jury.

Too bad it was only a hung jury, instead of a hanging jury.

60 posted on 03/16/2005 2:01:46 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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